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Zheng Zhuang Gong pretended to be the king's order to crusade in the Central Plains all the way, and the military prestige was prominent, and the stinging fox banner and the Qingshi crusade made the surrounding princes tremble.

At this time, the princes were not afraid of the status of King Zhou Huan's son of heaven, but they were afraid of the crusade of the ministers under the banner of the stinging fox and the symbol of the Tonggong and the fox arrow. Fear the united army of Zheng Zhuang Gong.

Zheng Zhuanggong's behavior provoked the anger of the Son of Heaven. King Zhou Huan got the news and was angry. I want to force Ji Ningsheng not to make a mistake, but it won't help if I think about it carefully. At this time in the Central Plains, the princes of all walks of life were no longer oriented towards Zhou Tianzi's joy and anger. However, it was oriented to Zheng Zhuanggong's stinging fox banner, and the banner pointed out that the princes from all walks of life flocked to the city, and they were crying under the sword and blood shadow of the vassal states. What a world this has become?

King Zhou Huan got this kind of information in a row. In this wave of crying and laughter in the world, King Zhou Huan, the son of heaven, saw a real opponent, a more authoritative and domineering Ji Ningsheng than his son of heaven.

What do you think, from snatching the spring wheat under the Son of Heaven to pretending to crusade, a traitorous male who deceived the world and stole his name became more and more clearly recognizable in King Zhou Huan's mind, and the farce became more and more intense.

King Zhou Huan thought: If this continues, won't Zhou Tianzi's world become his Zheng family's world? The good land laid down by the first king was eaten away by his Zheng family, how can this be reasonable! The resentment in King Zhou Huan's heart finally couldn't hold back anymore.

And Zheng Zhuanggong knew that King Zhou Huan was dissatisfied, but he still went his own way and ignored it. After the Hajj was deposed, he did not make any pilgrimage for five consecutive years. Become the first prince from all walks of life to challenge the royal dignity so boldly. Don't look at Zheng Zhuanggong's crusade against other vassal states on the grounds of not paying tribute, but since he was humiliated by King Zhou Huan that time, he no longer takes Zhou Tianzi seriously. Zhou Tianzi Supreme has disappeared in his mind.

King Zhou Huan convened the ministers to discuss, and said: "Ji Ningsheng is too rude!" If it is not punished, and the princes follow suit, won't the world of the Zhou family fall apart? I personally commanded the Sixth Army and went to denounce Ji Ningsheng's crimes. Do you have any good ideas to share with me? ”

Duke Yu's jealous father remembered that the last crusade against Duke Quwo Zhuang was also because King Zhou Huan was jealous of Duke Zheng Zhuang, so he decided to support the Marquis of Jin and E. And Gong Yu's father always remembered that when he led the Zhou army to the rescue, Zheng Guo and Xing Guo retreated without a fight. He always thought that the first was the military might of the Son of Heaven, of course, he thought that it was caused by the fact that he and Zheng Zhuanggong accompanied the Son of Heaven. Therefore, Duke Yu's jealous father is still a little ambiguous about Zheng Zhuanggong. So Gong Yu's father thought about it and said: "Zheng Guo has the third generation as Zhou Qingshi, and the Son of Heaven deposed Ji Ningsheng from the throne, and he has a grudge in his heart, so he doesn't come to the pilgrimage." The king can spare Ji Ningsheng's sins, and he ordered the Son of Heaven to change his evil and return to the right. ”

King Zhou Huan was furious and yelled at his father: "Do you think that Ji Kousheng is a person who can confess his sins with a piece of paper? This kind of person does not break his backbone and his wings, he will always have to confront my Zhou royal family, deceive the superiors and subordinates, do evil, and run rampant in the Central Plains. Can I make him act so domineering? ”

Seeing that King Zhou Huan's mind had been made and could not be persuaded, Gong Ji changed his tone and said, "What the king said is true. Now, Ji Ningsheng pretended to crusade against other countries in order to commit the wrath of heaven, and it was reasonable for the king to crusade against him. However, the great king is the body of the Son of Heaven, and it is not suitable to go to the crusade in person. My Zhou royal family can completely order the surrounding vassal states to jointly conquest, so that Ji Ningsheng can apologize to the Son of Heaven. ”

After hearing this, King Zhou Huan's face was still angry, and he said inexplicably: "Ji Liaosheng has not deceived me once or twice, and has repeatedly offended the dignity of my Great Zhou, from snatching spring wheat and autumn wheat to falsely crusading against him, from not paying tribute to bullying the king, I remember it vividly. I swear to him! If I don't get rid of this scourge myself, how can I have the dignity and majesty of the world. ”

"Shoot!" King Zhou Huan took the case, and he was furious, and the ministers around him were not good at talking.

So King Zhou Huan ordered his subordinates to order the neighboring vassal states to crusade against Zheng together, and only Cai, Wei, and Chen responded to King Zhou Huan's order. King Huan of Zhou set a specific time and began the plan to fight Zheng together.

At this time, civil strife had just broken out in the state of Chen. The reason is that because Chen Huangong died, his younger son-in-law Fei Tuo wanted to take his place.

Fei Tuo is in the hands of Chen Guo's soldiers. Seeing the death of his brother Chen Huangong, he was the person who said nothing about Chen Guodang. According to the etiquette of the Zhou room, the father and the son succeed. Chen Guojun was naturally succeeded by the prince and concubine. Therefore, the courtiers of Chen State only waited for the concubine to come forward to preside over the funeral of Chen Huan, and the prince was exempted from being the monarch of Chen Guo.

It's just that at this time, Gongzi Feituo had the idea of becoming a monarch on his own. Who is Fei Tuo?

Chen Huan Gong has always trusted this younger brother very much, and handed over Chen Guo's military power to him, and he also did not look at others in the court because he had military power. Even so, Fei Tuo is still dissatisfied, he is also the son of Chen Wengong, he can be the king, but his Fei Tuo can only be a minister. Chen Wengong was very attentive to the education of his two sons, focusing on literature for Concubine Bao, freely learning the etiquette of monarchs and ministers, and taking charge of state affairs, while for Concubine Tuo, he was mainly martial arts, learning eighteen kinds of martial arts, and training him to lead soldiers to fight. Therefore, Chen Guo sent troops, and most of them let Fei Tuo take command and lead the troops to the battle. In addition to fighting, Fei Tuo naturally felt that he had nothing to do. So it's often idle and not doing business. He often goes on safaris with his personal retinue, and the thrill and pleasure of the bloody blade prey gives him a lot of fun.

Gongzi Tuo has always been disagreeable with the courtesy of the elders and youngsters, what is ability in his eyes, ability is to wield a knife and dance a gun, is to fight and fight, is to lead the troops to fight. He was better than his brother in these points, and he was not used to the slender gentleman who was polite and powerless, and his brother was such a person, but he became a king.

It's not that the father is partial, it's just that the eldest brother is the son of the world, and the son of the world is to succeed to the throne, no matter if he is incapable, no matter how strong the other brothers are than him, it will not help. In Fu Tuo's life, there is a kind of depression and resentment from the bottom of his heart, which can only be expressed when hunting in the field, that kind of drastic killing, that kind of bloody scene, let him feel his own strength, let him have an indescribable brightness. Therefore, during the reign of his brother, except for leading troops to fight when needed, and going to the battlefield to kill people like he usually slaughtered wild beasts, he was in no mood to care about national politics.

Now that Chen Huan Gong has died, this concubine who has never thought about state affairs has a heartbeat, he can't live like this for the rest of his life, he must hold the throne that he once envied but couldn't get in his hands. However, for now, the ministers of the DPRK and China are looking at their own eyes. How can we take the throne into our hands? Fei Tuo set his eyes on the prince and the concubine.

In fact, he doesn't look down on the world's concubines. He saw that he knew some etiquette and statecraft like his father back then. A king who can't charge into battle and kill the enemy bravely is a good king. So Fei Tuo explained his thoughts to the henchmen around him. The people around him tried their best to flatter him, and they all said that Gongzi Tuo was the most heroic and invincible figure in Chen Guo, if he was in charge of Chen Guo, Chen Guo would be invincible, how could he let people be transferred to be a supporting role. The praise of his henchmen strengthened his confidence in usurping the throne. So Gongzi Tuo decided to succeed to the throne himself, but the premise was that the concubine must be abolished.

Gongzi Tuo began his own usurpation of the throne. First of all, he fabricated some charges for the concubine. The prince is young and armed with forces. Except for a few personal guards, there is no ability to protect themselves. So Fei Tuo took advantage of his military power and transferred troops to surround the prince's mansion. Then he announced in public that he was exempted from some trumped-up charges, and then cut off the head of the prince and set himself up as the king.

Fei Tuo is indeed simpler, in his opinion, killing the prince and taking the throne by himself is justified. When he summoned the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, he explained the reasons why the prince was punished and killed, and then declared himself in charge of the country.

To say that Gongzi Tuo is indeed a military style, he thinks that if he simply uses both hands and feet, he will take over the government of Chen Guo as a matter of course. His Royal Highness's ministers did not respond, and there was a lot of discussion after leaving the palace. Chen Guo's court immediately shook. Some resigned, and some left their hometowns with their families and went to other countries. When Chen Guo heard the news of Gongzi Tuo's usurpation, they were all afraid of the catastrophe and fled one after another.

Just when Concubine Tuo was puzzled and didn't know what to do, Concubine Tuo was instructed by King Zhou Huan to send troops to recruit Zheng Guo. Fei Tuo felt that the most important thing at the moment was to be recognized by King Zhou Huan. If he wanted to be justified in killing his son to succeed to the throne, he had to be recognized by King Zhou Huan, so he did not hesitate to accept the order to send troops.

Gongzi Tuo had no choice but to gather chariots and send the commanders of the princes and uncles to march towards Zheng State.

Cai and Wei also sent troops to the army.

King Huan ordered Duke Yu to be the right general and led the troops of Cai and Wei; ordered Zhou Gong to be the general of the left and led the Chen soldiers; He commanded the army as the Chinese army, and the left and right were the responses.

King Zhou Huan knew that Zheng Guoguo was domineering when he was a child. Because Zheng Zhuang deceived the monarch and let his father be a hostage of Zheng Guo, and his father, who was the crown prince, held his breath in his heart, did not see King Zhou Ping, and died of grief and depression. King Zhou Huan kept it in mind, and since he succeeded to the throne, he has deeply questioned the diligence of the Zheng family, and all of them have been assisted by three generations, all of whom are suspected of fake public and private interests. On the grounds of assisting the government, he annexed the surrounding princes, and the tribute and Zhou became tribute to the Zheng family. Even if Zheng Zhuanggong was abolished, he still had to pretend to crusade and expand his sphere of influence. If such behavior is not crusade, what kind of face does the Zhou family have to command the princes of all walks of life.